Friday, November 1, 2013

Interview & Giveaway: Darkness Splintered by Keri Arthur

What can you tell my readers about yourself that they might not know from looking on your bio or reading in another interview?

How
about... even though I hate the taste of coffee, I adore the smell of
it. That and freshly cut grass. Does that make me weird? lol

What do you enjoy doing on your down time?

If I'm not
watching movies, I'm out in the garden weeding (I swear the weeds where I
live have super powers—they grow incredibly fast and will not be
destroyed!) I'm also a hobbyist photographer, so I'm often heading off
somewhere for the day to take pics

What is your Favorite part of writing?

Starting a new story and gradually getting to know all the characters who populate it (I am not a plotter)

Do you have any certain routines you must follow as you write?

I haven't really got any set routines as such. I can pretty much
write anywhere if I need to. However, I do like to listen to music when I
write, and I have a set playlist of songs that is on repeat. It's
gotten to the point now that when I hear the music, the muse goes into
writing mode.

What are some of your Favorite books or Authors in the Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal Genres?

I actually don't read much urban fantasy these days (I used to, but now
that I'm published in the genre, I prefer to read outside of it. Feels
more like relaxation that way). But my favs would be Mercedes Lackey,
Anne McCaffrey, Jacqueline Carey, Katherine Kerr, Raymond E Fiest, Andre
Norton, C J Cherryh...there's a ton of others, but I'm in the UK at the
moment, and haven't got access to my bookshelves. I do also re-read the
Lord of the Rings regularly.

My fav non-genre authors are Dick Francis and James Herbert. I also read a whole lot of regency romances.

What can you tell me about the world that your Dark Angels Series is set in?

It's set in a future Melbourne—it's where I live, and a city that I
love, so it just made sense to set both it and the Riley Jenson series
there. It's a world where vampires, werewolves, reapers, ghosts, witches
and sorcerers live side by side with humans, but it's also a world in
which the life of all those beings now hang in the balance. If our
heroine doesn't succeed in stopping the keys to hell being found and
used, then it will literally become hell on EarthDo you have a favorite scene in Darkness Splintered?

I do, but I can't say what it is because that would be a massive spoiler

Darkness Splintered is the 6th book in the series. Do you find it easier to write about Risa now or when you first started?

I'm actually find it harder to write the books now, simply because
Splintered is the penultimate book in the series, and I have to start
tying up all the threads both in this book and in Darkness Falls, the
last in the series.

Which character was your favorite to write about in all of your series? What about the hardest to write about?

My
usual answer to this question is generally the one I'm currently
writing. But I guess there's one character that totally changed my
life—one character that allowed me to give up work and concentrate on
writing full time—and that is Riley Jenson. I think she is, and will
always be, an all-time favorite.

The hardest to write—that's a tough one, because I enjoy writing all
my characters, good or bad. But the hardest thing to write in any
series is a character's death—and I've written a few of those over the
years (Some welcomed by readers, some not!)

What Other Projects can we look forward to reading from you?

After
Darkness Splintered, the next book in line is Fireborn, which is the
first of the Souls of Fire series. That comes out June 2014. Then, in
Nov 2014, it's Darkness Falls, the last of the Dark Angels series

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Darkness Splintered

Dark Angels #6

When Risa loses the
second key to hell, she angers several powerful people, and she’s
starting to feel the pressure from all sides. She gets a visit from her
father, who gives her an ultimatum: Get back the key or he will kill her
friends.

Risa also finds herself under the scrutiny of the
vampire council, some of whom consider her a monster who should be
destroyed. But they offer her a bloody bargain: Take on the lethal head
of the council, Madeline Hunter, and others will support her.

As
the search for the keys to hell heats up, Risa realizes that she has no
choice. For the sake of the people she loves, she must find the keys —
and get rid of Hunter — before the second gate is opened and brings the
world closer to all hell breaking loose...

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Keri Arthur, author of the New York Times bestselling Riley Jenson
Guardian series, has now written more than twenty-eight novels. She’s
received several nominations in the Best Contemporary Paranormal
category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards and has won RT’s
Career Achievement Award for urban fantasy. She lives with her daughter
in Melbourne, Australia.

11 comments:

I have read all of Keri's Michael and Nikki and Riley Jenson series. I also read her first Circle book (which M&N are a spin off of). I'm surprised I haven't gotten to this series yet since I remember a young Risa from the Riley Jenson books.

I love all Keri's books! and own most of them. I am wondering if she is going to write more in the Myth & Magic series. Thanks for sharing the wonderful interview and the giveaway. evamillien at gmail dot com